Rob Fasoldt will tell you, if you want to work in sports management and get offered a job — any job — take it.

At least that’s what he has done, working for the Memphis Redbirds, the Richmond Braves, Gateway International Raceway, the St. Louis Blues, and the St. Louis Cardinals, where he is director of ticket sales and services, supervising a staff of 32 selling 3.2 million tickets a year.

“It’s a very competitive field,” said Fasoldt, 36. “When you have an opportunity, you take it.”

He found his first opportunity after running into a friend who had an internship with the Memphis Redbirds. He got a foot in the door. “I had just picked up my first real business suit, and halfway through the interview, I realized I had a tag hanging from it,” he said.

He stayed there about a year until he got an offer to become a ticket operations assistant with the Richmond Braves and moved to Virginia in 2000. His boss left shortly thereafter, creating another opportunity. “I was the manager of ticket operations after only six weeks,” he said. “I had to learn how to do my job and be a manager.”

He moved back to St. Louis as manager of ticket operations for Gateway International, where he said he learned to sell tickets.

He also learned how technology was changing sales, with dynamic pricing — ticket prices based on demand — and delivering tickets to mobile phones.

By 2005, he was regional sales manager, responsible for parent company Dover Motor Sports’ operations in Memphis and Nashville as well as St. Louis. He moved to Nashville and met his future wife, Melissa, who rented him his apartment.

In 2006, Fasoldt moved back to St. Louis to work for the Blues, where his Gateway mentor was now vice president of ticket sales and faced the task of rebuilding the team brand after a lockout.

The Cardinals were his dream. He joined the team on Opening Day 2010. His department has posted a 30 percent increase in gross ticket revenue and introduced market-driven dynamic ticket pricing, the second baseball team to do so. Now more than 10 teams use it, he said.

“He has the ability to connect not only with the fans but also with the staff,” said Joe Strohm, vice president of ticket sales.

Outside of the office, Fasoldt helps organize an annual rock concert downtown to benefit ALS. More than $5,000 is raised every year.

High school? Parkway North High School

College? Westminster College

Degrees? B.A. in political science

First job? groundskeeper for the Creve Coeur Athletic Association

Favorite movie? “Goodwill Hunting”

Favorite genre? Documentaries

Actor? Tom Hanks

If there was a movie about your life and career, who would play you? Kevin James